Word: happened
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...prophesying that this is going to happen. But it may happen. And we continue talking about pacifism, talking about politics, talking about national defence, always talking, always bluffing, playing up to the sluggishness, indifference or ignorance of the mass, or boosting short-cut enthusiasms. Nothing is done. Every minute calls for action. And the fact is that each year one War Department sinks deeper and deeper into a mire of incompetence and chaos...
...Harvard in the past two seasons made a great deal of the "threat game" from kick formation, Mahan lying back. Mahan threatened three things, two of which he could do well and one brilliantly--punt, forward pass and run. No eleven could be certain what was to happen, and Mahan made the most of the doubtful state of mind. Harvard's interference in the case of a run would pile the tackle all over himself, knock the end galley west and generally take care of the back who was coming up to relieve the two over-pressed defenders...
...less immediate value to the average graduate than the knowledge of how to sharpen a knife or to sew on a button," Dr. Moritz writes. "But has an exercise in fundamental thought processes they are invaluable to every individual, no matter what his ultimate work in life may happen...
...This country has developed to the highest degree the system of insurance," said President Lowell, "but it has been insurance against everything except war. And war is the greatest disaster that could happen to any country if it is unprepared. Every man here must prepare himself to be an officer, for officers are needed most by the government now. You must look upon this Regiment as the first step in the training of officers; you must take military courses, and, above all, go to the summer camp, if you would be adequately prepared...
...only with "lectures by Walter This or Big Bill That" on football, and is told that that is the only interest college men have in common. A business man avers that among undergraduates "the range of subjects usually is from athletics to girls, and if one of them should happen to talk on American or English politics the other would be amazed...